Apple has banned employees from creating a Slack channel to discuss pay equity which has been a hot topic among Apple employees over the past few months.
A member of the employee relations team, Apple’s version of HR, said that while the topic was “aligned with Apple’s commitment to pay equity,” it did not meet the company’s Slack Terms of Use.
“Slack channels are provided to conduct Apple business and must advance the work, deliverables, or mission of Apple departments and teams,” the employee relations representative told employees.
The company’s rules for the in-office chat app say that “Slack channels for activities and hobbies not recognized as Apple Employee clubs or Diversity Network Associations (DNAs) aren’t permitted and shouldn’t be created.”
Employment attorney Vincent P. White says that invoking the Slack terms may simply be an excuse to block discussions of workplace pay disparities since doing so outright would violate labor law. “Discussing pay equity is a protected activity under federal, state, and local law,” says White. “Everyone agrees on that. For them to try and impair employees’ ability to discuss pay equity and diversity in the workplace is a clear cut act of retaliation.”
MacDailyNews Take: Apple employees, feel free to discuss pay equity below.
Ohh… dick move.
Rumor has it that Tim Cook absolutely loves dick moves.
And apparently MDN is not immune to puns…
“A member of the employee relations team, Apple’s version of HR, said that while the topic was “aligned with Apple’s commitment to pay equity,” it did not meet the company’s Slack Terms of Use.”
““Slack channels are provided to conduct Apple business and must advance the work, deliverables, or mission of Apple departments and teams,” the employee relations representative told employees.”
You would think a well paid employee is a happy, enthusiastic, productive employee that would advance the work, deliverables, or mission of Apple departments and teams.
But call me crazy. How many hundreds of millions is Tim getting again?…
And he was spearheading various SJ issues and pay equity was one of them. Thought he would have solved these kinds of things a long time ago before blowing his own horn.
Who says Apple has any real problems with pay equity or sexual harassment?
The woke employees that are back-channelling to Zoe Schiffer at The Verge seem to have a serious axe to grind based upon political ideological possession. These folks won’t be satisfied until the leadership of the company is removed and replaced with them – sitting in judgement over a kangaroo court. None of this has anything to do with running a business. These folks literally want to destroy the company in service of their wacked politics.
‘Meet the new boss, same as the old boss’. Worse actually, Chairman Mao worse.
“These folks won’t be satisfied until the leadership of the company is removed and replaced with them”
And you know this how, do you work at Apple? If not, opinion and conjecture with a tenuous connection that may or may not influence or exist.
But my number one takeaway from the quote above, how do you replace woke with more woke?!?! Do not know the degree scale of woke, however I do know any degree of woke is bad for business and bad for policies and politics…
Gee, now not only Parlor conservative App pulled for violating terms of service Apple’s own employees, from the woke crown, also banned. Big Brother Apple keeps getting bigger…
If this were on Facebook, this comment would be a prime candidate for the “You don’t care about that group, you’re just scapegoating that other group” tag.
Apple is a place of business, not a playpen for woke virtue signaling and the victimhood Olympics.
Apple is totally right to shut down Slack channels created by ‘activism’ obsessed employees who seem more interested in sowing employee discord than in doing actual work.
This isn’t just about “activism” or “virtue signaling.” This is about people’s actual remuneration for their work product. People should be able to know that they’re getting paid equal pay for equal work, and if they’re not, they have a right to call it out. Squashing this kind of discussion only benefits the employer, not the employees.
Tell me Eric, how do you judge or define “equal”? Just because we have the same job title, it doesn’t mean we are “equal”. Just because we have the same role or function, it doesn’t mean we are “equal”. You may be better at your job. Maybe I get along better with my co-workers, maybe you have more experience. Any good manager can define why two employee who are seemingly in the same position are not equal.
If that’s truly the case (which still sounds very subjective to me), then there should be no fear of discussing that. If there’s a legitimate reason why someone with a similar job title and seniority level is earning a higher salary, then the one with the lower salary should want to know what that is so they can increase their value to the company, thus meriting the higher salary level. So it would benefit the company as well for those discussions to take place because it creates a win-win between employer and employee as well.
Conversation can still be had; off work and off site. But are you really discussing your salary with an associate?
Most non SJW and woke people don’t. And do you trust their answers?
Well maybe that’s why SJW and “woke” individuals are striving to normalize these conversations, because as I stated above, these can only result in a win-win between the employees and the company.